[License-discuss] Idea for time-dependent license, need comments

[John Cowan]

Mike Milinkovich scripsit:

> So you are asserting that by getting a single patch accepted into the Linux
> kernel that I can, under US copyright law, re-license the entire work? As
> long as I share any proceeds equally with all other copyright holders of
> course.

In principle.  However, a judge might well decide that that was not enough
to make you a joint author.  Judges aren't computers.

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